Mollie Wendel to Jeremiah Gage (8 May 1863)

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La Grange Georgia -
May 8th 1863 - )
Dear Mr. Gage.)
How shall I thank you for the
sweet, sweet long letter I recieved from
you a few days since? I do assure
you I was seriously thinking of sending
you a drift again and right here in
this communication. Let me ask you to think
earnestly upon what I am about to say -
I think that our engagement cannot or
ought not to be consummated before
the termination of this war that
we had better simply have an understand
-ing - that each shall be true - and yet
nothing binding - I Love you devotedly
as you well know - and will be true
to you always - but I do not like this

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Gage Family Collection, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries

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